“Having Sex”

Roman Polanski was not arrested on charges of “having sex” with a 13-year-old girl. He was arrested on charges of raping a 13-year-old girl — charges to which he plead guilty.

Forcing sexual activity on a child is not sex, it is rape. Giving a child drugs and alcohol to coerce her into sexual activity is not sex, it is rape. Penetrating a child anally despite her repeated protests is not “sodomy,” it is anal rape.

Roman Polanski did not have sex with a 13-year-old. He raped her. He raped her and then he left the country to escape prosecution.

“The state of California is in the middle of a gigantic fiscal crisis. The victim has expressed a desire to just move on. It happened over 30 years ago. I think CA should be putting what little resources it has to pursuing current rapists living within the confines of the state, posing a threat NOW to the good people of the state of CA. “